Webster Groves School District Progress Reports are designed to monitor and promote the district’s mission of ‘academic and personal success for every student.’  Teachers use a variety of measures to evaluate student progress through the year including class assignments, reading analyses, teacher observations and tests.  This progress report is one of many tools (others include conferences, portfolios, and work sent home) used to communicate information about your child’s academic and personal success.  It will be distributed three times during the school year and will show your child’s performance on the most important strategies and content of his or her grade level.

 LIVING AND WORKING

• Empathy and care for others.
• Respect for self and others
• Accepts responsibility for actions
• Perseverance with his/her learning
• Attempts to resolve conflicts in appropriate ways
• Organizational skills to support learning 

SCIENCE  

How Seeds Travel

• Students who demonstrate understanding can develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.
•  Students who demonstrate understanding can make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

 Force and Motion

• Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other. 
• Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and conduct a fair test to compare and contrast the forces (measured by a spring scale in Newtons) required to overcome friction when an object moves over different surfaces (i.e., rough/smooth)

 Observing Weather Patterns

• Students who demonstrate understanding can represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.
• Students who demonstrate understanding can identify patterns indicating relationships between observed weather data and weather phenomena (e.g., temperature and types of precipitation, clouds and amounts of precipitation)

 Engineering

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Explains how human beings learn, modify, and adapt their cultures
• Understands their historical roots and locate themselves in time
• Understands the relationships between human beings and their environment
• Explains how individuals interact and the consequences of these interactions
• Understands how science and technology affect society
• Understands how global interdependence affects societies and cultures

 ELA

• Students will be able to read with understanding.
• Students will be able to analyze what they read.
• Students will be able to communicate in writing for a variety of purposes and audiences.
• Students will be able to share their thoughts with others by speaking and listening.
• Students will be able to acquire, assess and communicate information.

 MATH

Mathematical Practices:

• Students will be able to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Students will be able to communicate mathematically.

 Content Standards:

• Students will understand place value to represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
• Students will be able to add and subtract within 20 fluently.
• Students will be able to work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
• Students will be able to reason with shapes and their attributes.
• Students will be able to measure and estimate lengths.
• Students will be able tell time and count money.
• Students will be able to represent and interpret data.

  VISUAL ARTS

• Students will be able to create using the elements and principles of art.
• Students will be able to identify and select art work for a collection.
• Students will be able to observe, interpret and respond critically to a work of art.
• Students will be able to make artistic connections between themselves and the world.

 PHYSICAL EDUCATION 

• Students will be able to understand the proper steps needed to perform a skill correctly.
• Students will be able to demonstrate rhythmic routines and patterns using fundamental movement skills.
• Students will be able to describe basic principles of a healthy lifestyle.
• Students will be able to perform a variety of manipulative skills.
• Students will be able to participate in a variety of games while demonstrating cooperation, sportsmanship, and fair play.

MUSIC

• Students will be able to create using the elements and principles of music.
• Students will be able to perform with musical instruments.
• Students will be able to create and perform rhythm patterns. 
• Students will be able to use the voice as an instrument.